Chicken S*** as a fertlizer?

Certified organic by USDA - $3.25 per bag. Great for raised beds and as food for the composting worms.

LD

 

Chicken manure is awesome for outdoor.

 

Black Hen comes in 3-2-3 and 2-3-2. It is excellent for indoor or outdoor.

 

wut percentage of you guys' outdoor mixes is this?

 

Nick

I used it this year on the Comfrey patch and in the raised beds. I went with the directions on the product though I don't remember what it was exactly.

I do remember thinking at the time that it seemed like quite a bit but I have nothing but praise for the benefit this product provided to the overall health and vigor of the plants and to the soil.

Great food for the worm bins as well. Processes quickly resulting in an even better soil amendment.

HTH

LD

 

thanks lump

 

I purchased a house recently that came with a coop and 10 chickens. I'm nervous I'm going to kill these things during the winter. Just saying...

 

Chicken shit smells SOOOOOOOOO BAD, fuck that hahah.

 

So use the composted stuff as LD recommends above. I use composted chicken manure (and other goodies) in my worm bins and the worms love it.

 

WeeDroid

Sometime when you're really bored, check out a list comparing animal manures and see what you think of poultry manures in general vs. mammalian manures.

Particularly as it relates to using a manure as food stock for worms. After you suffer through the myriad of WARNINGS!!!! about chicken manure being HOT and get to the information about using COMPOSTED chicken manure the differences and benefits are striking.

Any manure that hasn't been composted or at least aged will be hot. That isn't exactly a news flash. Hopefully.

LD

 

lol

I'm seldom that bored but I'll keep it in mind.

 

It rains a lot in Oregon. You probably heard that before though.....

 

~dies laughing~

 

yoctown

This isn't necessarily the best reference but it'll work. Scroll down to Page 4 and you can see a comparison of various animal manures.

Check out the Rabbit manure! LOL

LD

 

In this case, isn't variety best?

I've been getting a little nutty about thermo and vermicomposting lately. I have collected alpaca, llama, rabbit, pigeon, horse, and cow manures for my compost pile and worm bin. I have lots of farmer friends. I figured diversity would be a good thing. Don't have a source for chicken shit though. I'll be mixing them in my soil mix as well, but most of it is fresh, so for right now, it's all going to composting.

 

Irie67

Absolutely variety is best.

Then again in the middle of winter being able to drive down any farm store or mainstream nursery and being able to buy organic composted chicken manure to feed the worm bins has some advantages to hooking up a trailer and driving out to Farmer Bob's place and loading up a couple yards of manure on icy roads.

I'm pretty much a light-weight in this area - path of least resistance and all.

LOL

LD

 

yoctown

That's a shame that the composted chicken product isn't available in your part of the world. I guess because there's some commercial poultry operations in Oregon and Washington these products are available literally at every nursery and DIY stores.

E.B. Stone, Whitney Farms, Stutzman's and a couple of others whose names I can't recall.

No shortage of chicken guano in The People's Republic of Oregon.

LD

 

I use some composted chicken manure as a topdressing along with vermicompost. I put a solid inch or even 2" of vermicompost as a topdressing and then I take a good handful of the composted chicken manure and mix it in with the vermicompost topdressing.

I also use it as a part of my soil mix - Not heavy, mind you, but enough so that its definetly in there.

jerry.

 

yoctown

Just something to consider perhaps - there are some huge differences between steer and dairy manures because of what they're fed.

The steer manure comes from the feed lots that they're placed in to fatten them up. For the previous 9 months or so they've been feeding on the rangelands and not pastures so that when they hit the feedlots this is where the growth hormones and other feed additives are provided to get them ready for market.

The dairy industry isn't exactly one to hold up, but a milk-producing cow is a valuable asset over a few years so that they are generally pastured and their feed is supplemented with alfalfa or Timothy grass, grains and unfortunately hormones to increase milk production. Not all but many.

With the chicken manures you know that it's been through a thermal composting process which is not the case for steer manure, it's simply aged for some period of time.

HTH

LD